“If a chieftain or a man leave his house, garden, and field and hires it out, and some one else takes possession of his house, garden, and field and uses it for three years; if the first owner return and claims his house, garden, and field, it shall not be given to him, but he who has taken possession of it and used it shall continue to use it.” IfsMenYearsFirstsUseUsedThreeHouseGivenTakenFieldsReturnGardenClaimsPossessionOwnersThree Years Author:Hammurabi
“I go forth to seek To seek and claim the lovely magic garden Where grasses softly sigh and Muses speak.” SpeakMagicGardenClaimsLovelyGrassMuseSigh Author:Anna Akhmatova
“Poets claim that we recapture for a moment the self that we were long ago when we enter some house or garden in which we used to live in our youth. But these are most hazardous pilgrimages, which end as often in disappointment as in success. It is in ourselves that we should rather seek to find those fixed places, contemporaneous with different years.” ShouldYearsLongDifferentEndsSelfMomentsUsedHouseYouthPoetGardenClaimsDisappointmentFixedLong AgoPilgrimage Book:In Search of Lost Time, Volume III: The Guermantes Way Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume III: The Guermantes Way
“The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. Substance abusing writers are just substance abusers — common garden variety drunks and druggies, in other words. Any claims that the drugs and alcohol are necessary to dull a finer sensibility are just the usual self-serving bullshit. I've heard alcoholic snowplow drivers make the same claim, that they drink to still the demons.” WritingMindStillsIdeasSelfCommonCreativeHeardDrinkDrugIntellectualGardenClaimsPopsMythAlcoholVarietySubstanceOur TimeDemonDullServingDriversEndeavorUsualSensibilityBullshitAlcoholicsDrugs And AlcoholSelf ServingAbusersEntwinedDruggies Author:Stephen King